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Online-Ressource (350 p)
ISBN:
9780226194875
Content:
For all the recent attention to the slaveholding of the founding fathers, we still know remarkably little about the influence of slavery on American politics. American Taxation, American Slavery tackles this problem in a new way. Rather than parsing the ideological pronouncements of charismatic slaveholders, it examines the concrete policy decisions that slaveholders and non-slaveholders made in the critical realm of taxation. The result is surprising-that the enduring power of antigovernment rhetoric in the United States stems from the nation's history of slavery rather than its history of li
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Contents; List of Tables, Figures, and Maps; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prologue: Taxation without Representation; Part I Colonial Tax Systems; 1 Virginia; 2 Massachusetts; 3 Variations; Part II National Tax Politics; 4 The Origin of the Tariff; 5 Direct Taxes; Part III The Synthesis in the States; 6 Property Taxes; Epilogue: James Madison on Slave Taxes; Appendix: How to Talk about Taxes; Notes; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226194899
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226194875
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe American Taxation, American Slavery
Language:
English
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